What is considered nOrMaL

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What is considered NoRmAl behavior?
(Social/Public/Thinking/etc etc etc)
What IS Normal compared to what an autistic person with such as aspergers conciters normal but normals do not.

Last edited by aspergian_mutant on 03 Jun 2008, 3:34 pm, edited 2 times in total.

what everybody else does. it's a soul crushing thing, this drive to be normal.

That is a supremely vague statement,
got to do better then that, lets get definitive here.

I consider normal to be someone who is happy, emotionally mature, and capable of making their own decisions.

If you ask me, everyone is a freak (and I mean that in a good way). Normal is just common practice or lacking eccentricities.

This question is so broad that it is almost pointless.

Suffice it to say, normal constitutes a statistical range or region that a majority of elements share in common. That definition should make both the sociologists and the mathematicians happy.

Thats a huge scope of possibilities; could you possibly refine it? Norms differ greatly between religious groups, ethnic groups, nationalistic divides... the list goes on and on. One difference is that being on the spectrum affects how you discern, interpret, process and respond to social stimuli. Another would be that those unaffected have an easier time coping with changes in schedule or routine. Without a clearer picture of what you're asking, however... I don't wish to continue in error.


M.

What is considered 'normal' seems to be the things that every NT does during his/her day.

Get up, go to work, be bored at work and then come home and spend time with the family.

How boring is that?

Well, at least.. it sounds boring to me.

What is considered NoRmAl behavior?
(Social/Public/Thinking/etc etc etc)
What IS Normal compared to what an autistic person with such as aspergers conciters normal but normals do not.

Again, can you refine the scope of what you are asking?

Is there a default that those on the spectrum consider normal for themselves, or is it more an awareness of the difference?

Broadly speaking... someone OTS will consider normalcy in relation to self; someone more NT will consider normalcy more in relation to others. At least, that is my opinion.


M.

Unfortunately I find people like this to be rather rare.

A setting on the washing machine

dont understand most of the post,but normal is supposed to be what the majority do.
all can be called 'normal' in that all are different so are all the same under 'normal' in one way or another.

everyone is weird and no-one is normal.

and besides normal is someones opnion on what vague template something should fit (like the human template for them would be 2 eyes, 1 nose and a mouth etc).

normal is the thing that is corrupting our scciaty and making plastic sugeons and cosmetic chemists rich.

normal is based on what the majority do but that's called the majoritys choice to me.

for example:

"the mojority of people choose to be straight" is better than "it's normal to be straight"

so all this rounds up to is normal sucks and is runining our socity.

then what is considered abnormal and wrong with the autistics?
Like us........

Wrong? That isn't a term I would want to apply... different. Stronger analytical and observational skills (even if left baffled as to their meaning) balanced with difficulties in understanding others. The overwhelming (though not absolute) tendency in nature is that those who are different are shunned or displaced so that their differences don't bother, disturb or interrupt the flow of those in the majority. If ASD behavior was the majority, then NTs would experience a similar sense of being 'wrong' in that they would not then be the standard of measure.


M.